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Don Ford

Title/Position
Head of Research and Foreign, Comparative, and International Law
Adjunct Instructor in Law
Don Ford is the Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Librarian and an Adjunct Lecturer in Law at Iowa Law.
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Mattie Francis

Title/Position
Program Assistant
Mattie is a Program Assistant providing administrative support for Iowa Law programs.
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Katie Frank Carl

Title/Position
Adjunct Instructor
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Pam Funke

Title/Position
Director Of Alumni Relations and Events
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Thomas P. Gallanis

Title/Position
Allan D. Vestal Chair in Law Emeritus
Professor Thomas P. Gallanis held the Allan D. Vestal Chair in Law. He became an emeritus faculty member in 2023. Professor Gallanis specializes in trust, succession, property, and fiduciary law, with a particular interest in their comparative and cross-border aspects, and also is a historian of English and European law.
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Leslie Gannon

Title/Position
Faculty Events Coordinator
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Josephine Gittler

Title/Position
Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law
Professor Josephine Gittler is the Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law. She has secondary appointments in the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health. She is Director of the National Health Law and Policy Resource Center and Co-Director of the Guardianship and Conservatorship Institute. Her teaching, scholarship, and service focuses on health law and policy; elder law and policy, children, families and the law (child maltreatment, juvenile delinquency and the child welfare and juvenile justice systems); alternate dispute resolution (negotiation and mediation); and the legislative process and statutory interpretation and drafting.
Katherine Goettel

Katherine Goettel

Title/Position
Adjunct Faculty Member
Kate Goettel is an Adjunct Faculty Member at Iowa Law. She is teaching Selected Topics in Immigration Law: Emerging Issues in Immigration Law and Policy.
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Megan Graham

Title/Position
Associate Clinical Professor
Director, Technology Law Clinic
Megan Graham is an associate clinical professor and the director of the Technology Law Clinic. Her work centers on the role technology plays in criminal defendants’ cases and the broader criminal legal system.
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Andy Grewal

Title/Position
Orville L. and Ermina D. Dykstra Professor in Income Tax Law
Professor Grewal’s scholarly interests relate to tax law, administrative law, statutory interpretation, and constitutional law. He has testified in Congress on tax administration issues, and his scholarship in that area has formed the basis for several taxpayer challenges to the Treasury's regulatory authority, including in cases before several United States Circuit Courts of Appeal.
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Ingrid Gronstal

Ingrid is HELI's Research Fellow.
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Alison Guernsey

Title/Position
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Federal Criminal Defense Clinic
Professor Guernsey teaches in and directs the law school’s Federal Criminal Defense Clinic. Under her supervision, law students represent indigent individuals charged with federal crimes in the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Eighth and Sixth Circuits.
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April Gutting

Title/Position
Adjunct Faculty Member
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Karisa Harland

Title/Position
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
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Jeff Harty

Title/Position
Adjunct Faculty Member
Karen Heimer

Karen Heimer

Title/Position
Professor and Collegiate Fellow, Sociology and Criminology
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N. William Hines

Title/Position
Joseph F. Rosenfield Professor and Dean Emeritus
Professor Hines completed his phased retirement in 2014, but he continues teaching part-time.
Donald Holmes

Donald Holmes

Title/Position
Adjunct Faculty Member
Mr. Holmes is Managing Partner in the government and commercial contracts counseling and litigation firm of Donald C. Holmes & Associates, P.A. with an office in suburban Maryland and in the District of Columbia. Mr. Holmes has specialized in government and commercial contract claims and litigation matters for his entire professional life. He has spent 40 years in this specialty, and was formerly the Chairman of the Government Contract Litigation section of Jones Day, the largest centrally managed law firm in the world. He is the founder and President of the Contract Research & Analytic Institute. The Institute's goal, through its publications and lectures, is to provide real world solutions that professionals can use in dealing with day-to-day contract issues. Mr. Holmes received his undergraduate degree, with honors, from the University of Maryland and his Law degree, with honors, from the George Washington University National Law Center, where he served as Research Editor of the George Washington Law Review.
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Herbert Hovenkamp

Title/Position
Ben and Dorothy Willie Chair Emeritus
Professor Hovenkamp is a recognized expert and prolific author in the area of Antitrust law.  He joined the Iowa law faculty in 1986. Before coming to Iowa, Professor Hovenkamp was Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and prior to that he was Instructor, Department of History and American Civilization, University of Texas.
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Emily Hughes

Title/Position
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Edward F. Howrey Professor of Law
Professor Hughes teaches Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. Before coming to the College, she was a professor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, where she taught criminal law, criminal procedure (investigations and adjudication), and a seminar discussing mitigation and the death penalty.
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Hannah Huston

Title/Position
Marketing and Admissions Coordinator
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Hannah Huston

Title/Position
Marketing & Admissions Coordinator
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Terry Jacobs

Title/Position
Adjunct Faculty Member
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The Honorable John A. Jarvey

Title/Position
Adjunct Faculty Member
Judge Jarvey is an Adjunct Faculty Member at Iowa Law.
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Nicholas Johnson

Title/Position
Retired Adjunct Faculty Member
Nicholas Johnson is among roughly 700 individuals listed in The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (2009), described by the publisher as “leading figures in the history of American law, from the colonial era to the present day.” He taught at the College of Law from 1981 until his retirement in 2014.
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Carolyn Jones

Title/Position
Dean Emerita and Orville L. and Ermina D. Dykstra Chair in Income Tax Law Emerita
Carolyn Jones joined the University of Iowa College of Law in 2004 as the 16th Dean of the College.  She served as Dean until 2010 when she returned to the faculty of Iowa Law. The period on which much of her works focuses is World War II and the postwar era when much of the current income tax system developed. She has contributed to eight books on tax law and is the author of numerous scholarly articles on the issue. Dean Jones took emerita status in 2021.
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Ellen L. Jones

Title/Position
Head of Reference
Adjunct Lecturer in Law
Following completion of her Library Science degree, Ellen Jones joined the staff of the University of Iowa Law Library as a Reference Librarian. During her tenure at the Library, Ellen has coordinated and taught legal research as part of the first year legal writing program since 1994.  She has also coordinated and taught Advanced Legal Research, a 2-credit, pass-fail course, often with co-teachers, since the Spring 1997 semester. 
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Andrew Jordan

Title/Position
Associate Professor of Law
Professor Andrew Jordan focuses his research on issues in legal philosophy with an emphasis on normative issues in constitutional adjudication and contract theory. He has also published widely on topics in moral philosophy.